Senior / Principal R&D Engineer

When you join the team at Cordis, you become part of an inspiring mission to save lives, impacting millions of people and broadening access to life-saving cardiovascular and endovascular technology. As a global leader for over 60 years, we are dedicated to being the heart of innovation to transform cardiovascular care.

At Cordis, we’re teammates, not just employees. We embrace an empowered and one-team culture where teammates are inspired to unleash their full potential. With diverse teams on a global scale, we believe the richness of our experiences and backgrounds enhances the careers of our teammates, the service to our customers, and ultimately, the lives of our patients.

If you love a challenge and are ready to have a direct, transformative and positive impact on the lives of millions, then Cordis is just the place for you. We are the people behind the people who keep saving lives.

The current position requires design and development expertise in vascular closure devices with relevant clinical application experience, and a good understanding of cardiovascular catheter technologies and procedures.

The level of the position to be determined based on level of experience and proficiency.

• Applies comprehensive medical device engineering knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to achieve design realization of medical devices.
• Plans and develops engineering projects concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major organization programs. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Identifies internal and external customer needs. Translates needs and requirements into tests cases for design verification and validation.
• Accountable for design reviews as applicable ensuring that verification and validation tests are documented, evaluated against design input, and executed properly.
• Develops and monitors work schedule to ensure on time completion of testing activities assigned.
• Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
• Acts as individual technical expert, conceives or is assigned, plans, and conducts research in problem areas of considerable scope and complexity
• Anticipates, plans, and implements new innovative test methods; provides critical design input to specific situations; has a broader knowledge of the testing environment; gains cross functional alignment across the organization.
• Able to summarize results of design work and research studies concisely. Participates in the regulatory submission process as a subject matter expert. Supports regulatory by providing technical justifications for submissions, reviewing regulatory filings, and answering technical questions during planned meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with all Federal, State, local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering is required.
• MS Degree in Engineering discipline preferred.
• A minimum of 8 years related work experience and design experience in vascular closure device preferred.
• Proven ability in the design and development (including process engineering) of cardiovascular catheter technologies including design experience in vascular closure devices.
• Must possess clearly recognizable outstanding technical qualifications and leadership.
• Proven proficiency in Computer Aided Design or SolidWorks preferred.
• English communication skills, written and oral.

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